Hothouse: Eve McGowan's property gossip

FINE OUTLOOK: Robert and Bonnie will have spectacular views of Santa Eulalia beach

Lost in Portugal, Bonnie's old villa

Holidaymakers who frequent the resort of Santa Eulalia near Albufeira on the Portuguese Algarve are in for a shock they return in the summer.

Gravelly- voiced singer Bonnie 57, and her property developer husband Robert Sullivan, have knocked down their five-bedroom villa overlooking the to make way for a cutting glass-fronted house.

' We're building on four-and-a-half that meander down to a cove. The land alone is worth 2million,' says Bonnie, who is for hits such as Lost France and Total Eclipse Of Heart.

' The house will cover 10,000sq ft - than our previous home - we've had a water feature to run through the dropping down to a tropical pool landscaped with exotic and trees.

'Robert and I will have the whole of the top storey, below will be three guest suites with balconies and there will be underground parking for everyone.'

Bonnie and Robert, reportedly worth £44million, have an impressive property portfolio that includes three houses and an apartment by the marina in Swansea in Bonnie's native Wales, and 360 acres of land in Berkshire with stabling for 60 horses.

The couple also have a fabulous 1850s house near to Catherine Zeta-Jones's parents in Mumbles, Swansea Bay.

'We're hoping the new build will be worth up to £8million once the market is buoyant again,' says Bonnie, who is currently on tour.

Amanda Donohoe lives the quiet life in Suffolk

Actress Amanda Donohoe arrived in ITV1's soap, Emmerdale earlier this month as wealthy Natasha Wylde, who decides to buy up Holme Farm and half the village.

But in her own life Amanda, 46, who starred with Jim Carrey in Liar Liar and won a Golden Globe for the series LA Law while living in LA for most of the Nineties, lives quietly in Suffolk.

'I have a small cottage,' says Amanda, above, who lives with sound artist Russell Haswell, 38.

'It's little with a lot of land. I was going to buy somewhere bigger, but I was burned by the recession in the Nineties, which is why I moved to America.

I lost everything and I thought, "I can't be burned again."'

A new bedside manor for Kevin

Kevin McKidd, star of the BBC drama Rome, has relocated with wife Jane and children Joseph, eight, and Iona, six, from their native Scotland to LA because of his new role as Dr Owen Hunt in the new series of Grey's Anatomy, now showing on Living.

'I've spent the odd week in LA but it's different to live here,' says the 35-year-old, who rose to fame in the 1996 film Trainspotting. 'It's a lovely way of life. We're happy here but I'm sure we'll be back home at some point.'

The family who struggled to sell their 'underground house' in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, which featured on Grand Designs, and resorted to a lottery to try to shift it, have had to change the terms of the competition. Tim and Zoe Bawtree would have fallen foul of the Gambling Commission, so instead of asking entrants, who pay £25 a ticket, to answer a question about the Cheltenham Gold Cup, they must try to 'spot the frisbee', which qualifies as a true test of skill. A photo shows Zoe throwing a frisbee and entrants must guess its position. The 10,000 people who have already entered the competition can send in new entries or ask for a refund. The three-bedroom house will be given away only if 46,000 people participate - raising about £1million to cover costs including stamp duty, furnishings and a donation to charity. www.winthecheltenhamhouse.com